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one having the means to cause death, that is, the
Devil".-Hebrews 2 :14, NW.
8 Now comes total abolition of the death due
to Adam : "And death and Hades were hurled into
the lake of fire . This means the second death, the
lake of fire . Furthermore, whoever was not found
written in the book of life was hurled into the lake
of fire." Revelation 20 :14, 15, NW Those acting
rebellious during the thousand years prove unfit
to be enrolled in the book of life and they would
be plunged into the lake of fire, the second death,
without waiting for the final general test at the
close of the millennium. Their submerging in the
lake of everlasting destruction would not mean
the continuance forever of death due to Adam .
No ; for the fiery, sulphurous lake symbolizes the
"second death", a death not suffered for our natural
inheritance from Adam but inflicted for the
rebellious sinner who sins out of his own willful
choice against God's requirements for life. Second
death could at any time throughout eternity be
inflicted upon any who might choose to sin . That
always remains within God's power .
9 Death and Hades are hurled into the lake of
fire to experience everlasting destruction. Hades,
mankind's common grave, is destroyed by emptying
it of all the dead and by never returning the
rebellious sinners to Hades but pitching them into
the symbolic lake of fire . Death is destroyed
by the sin-removing sacrifice of Jesus Christ
which cancels all the disabilities the believers
e . a Who of mankind are hurled into the lake of fire?
b Does that mean the continuance forever of death
due to Adam? Or what?
9 . How are death and Hades cast into the lake of fire?
Of what prophecy does this mark the climax for Christ's
reign?